IN THIS ISSUE: Finally a Little Good News for the Economy Geithner's Latest Toxic Asset Bank Bailout Does the PPIP Have Any Chance of Working? Fed to Buy $300 Billion in Treasuries & a Lot More CBO Assessment of Obama's Record 2010 Budget Conclusions, Market Implications & What to Do...

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Electing the Janitor-in-Chief Can't Borrow on Your Home? Whip out the Credit Card! Deficits as High as an Elephant's Eye Can You Count to 41? Chairs, Moving, and Tony Bennett This week we survey the economic landscape that the new president will inherit. It is a polite understatement to say that...

October 10, 2008 Dear, Dear Reader, In last week's edition of this meandering missive, I mused as follows... "What, I wonder, will the government do when next week, or the week after maybe, the U.S. stock market takes another header for 500 points? Stay tuned. Meanwhile, gold is at $826, down...

It's More Than Freddie and Fannie The US Banking System Is in Trouble $500 Billion and Counting Fannie, Freddie, and the Credit Crisis Baltimore, La Jolla, and South Africa Yet another crisis confronts us, as we will have to deal with the aftermath of a rather large number of bank failures over the...